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“I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Beautiful #Host #Interior Design
“Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Witty #Party #Tongue
“The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Design #Virtue #Cardinals
“It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Home #Men #Personality
“When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Numbers #Imagination #Imitation
“My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Design #Interior Design
“I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Fool #Born #Unwise
“I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Running #Writing #Light
“I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Art #Mean #Giving
“You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Design #Pockets #Interior Design
“Simplicity, suitability and proportion.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Simplicity #Design #Interior Design
“To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Writing #Design #Style
“We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Design #Use #Accepting
“I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Believe #White #Optimism
“No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Lakes #Meals #Soup
“I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Song #Men #Healthy
“A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#House #Comfort #Synthesis
“It is not chic to be too chic.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Teenage #Chic
“I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Sunshine #Air #Doors
“I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Country #Men #House
“It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand ...”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Writing #Hands #Simplicity
“don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Color #Different #Rooms
“Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room ...”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Light #Air #Comfort
“the smallest part is worthy of the whole.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Worthy #Smallest
“You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Home #Joy #Growing
“Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Believe #Lakes #Meals
“You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Home #House #Want
“No one chair should be isolated ...”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Furniture #Chairs #Should
“Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Long #Eating #Good Health
“a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.”
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Grief #Sorrow #Mistress

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